'Potentially deadly' Hurricane Florence sets its sights on Carolinas

Since reliable record-keeping began more than 150 years ago, North Carolina has been hit by only one Category 4 hurricane: Hazel, with 130 miles per hour winds, in 1954.

"There is an increasing risk of life-threatening impacts from Florence:storm surge at the coast, freshwater flooding from a prolonged and exceptionally heavy rainfall event inland, and damaging hurricane-force winds", the National Hurricane Centersaid in an update on Florence's progress at 5 a.m. Monday.

Coastal areas are likely to experience storm surges and the hurricane may dump heavy rains across the entire mid-Atlantic region, causing risky floods.

Maps of the storm's trajectory show it is most likely to make landfall between northern SC and North Carolina's Outer Banks on Thursday, making it the most powerful storm to strike the Carolinas in almost three decades.

"This is one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years", President Donald Trump warned on Twitter.

At least 250,000 more people were due to be evacuated from the northern Outer Banks in North Carolina on Tuesday after more than 50,000 people were ordered on Monday to leave Hatteras and Ocracoke, the southernmost of the state's barrier islands.

Historically, 90 per cent of fatalities from hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions have been caused by water, NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen said.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland have all declared a state of emergency and told residents to prepare for flooding and power outages. It's then forecast to close in on North or SC on Thursday, hitting a stretch of coastline that's vulnerable to rising sea levels due to climate change.

At a press conference on Monday, Cooper called his state the "bullseye" for Hurricane Florence, saying they are "bracing for a hard hit".

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NWS briefing there is an "increasing risk of life threatening impacts, including storm surge and inland flooding". On Sunday, Florence reached sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour to be classified a hurricane.

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